Burkina Faso vs Senegal: Suicide rate

Suicide rate in 2017: 13.2 per 100,000 people in Burkina Faso and 12.9 per 100,000 people in Senegal, by IHME estimates. In 2017 the value was higher in Burkina Faso, by 0.3 per 100,000 people, or 1.02 times that in Senegal.

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deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

Burkina FasoSenegalWorld

What the numbers say

Burkina Faso has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1990.
The world as a whole: 10 per 100,000 people in 2017.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

Year	Burkina Faso	Senegal	World
2017	13.2	12.9	10
2016	13.3	13	10.1
2015	13.3	13	10.2
2014	13.2	13	10.3
2013	13.2	12.9	10.5
2012	13.1	12.8	10.7
2011	12.8	12.6	11
2010	12.7	12.5	11.2
2009	12.5	12.5	11.4
2008	12.6	12.5	11.6
2007	12.6	12.6	11.7
2006	12.7	12.6	12
2005	12.7	12.7	12.5
2004	12.9	12.7	12.6
2003	12.9	12.7	12.8
2002	13	12.7	13
2001	13.2	12.8	13.4
2000	13.3	12.8	14.1
1999	13.4	13	14.5
1998	13.6	13	14.7
1997	13.5	13	15.1
1996	13.4	13.1	15.4
1995	13.4	13.1	15.9
1994	13.3	13.1	16.1
1993	13.3	13	16
1992	13.4	13	15.8
1991	13.5	13	15.5
1990	13.8	13.1	15.4

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Deaths by suicide in a year, per 100,000 people.
Source: IHME, Global Burden of Disease, via Our World in Data.
Ranks count the 195 countries with a value in 2017, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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Burkina Faso vs Senegal: Suicide rate

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